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...occupational hazard in Hollywood: make a film based on real-life events and, predictably, you're going to have people grousing over inaccuracies. So it is with the latest crop of fact-based dramas. A bigger mystery: what Tolkien fans did before they had Peter Jackson's movie to pick apart...
...Evening News piece about presidential candidate Steve Forbes was an instance of biased reporting. The book expands that charge into a broadside against liberal bias in the media. Goldberg, though foaming a bit at the mouth, lands a few good punches. He notes, for example, how ABC's Peter Jennings, ticking off the Senators at President Clinton's impeachment trial, labels all the conservatives ("Senator McConnell of Kentucky; very determined conservative member of the Republican Party") but not the liberals ("Senator Mikulski of Maryland...
...Marine General Peter Pace, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, insists that the U.S. "will continue to work with each of the tribal leaders to get to the point where the things that we are doing in Afghanistan alongside them are good for both the U.S. and Afghanistan." But he concedes that all of Afghanistan is a battlefield. And, he said, "the battlefield will continue to be fluid...
...global economic slump hit Germany, with unemployment inching up to the important benchmark of 4 million. Schroder made an election pledge four years ago to get jobless numbers down to 3.5 million by the time of the election on Sept. 22. "The economy is the big issue," says Peter Lösche, a professor of political science at the University of Göttingen. "It looks as if the conservatives have a very good chance." A poll published last week in the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel said that if voting took place last Sunday, Germans would have given 39% of their...
Sutin was allegedly shot by Peter Odighizuwa, a student at the college who had been dismissed because of academic reasons...